Stochastic Demography for Conservation Biology

Models used in conservation biology often include demographic structure, but usually these models are deterministic. Stochastic models receive less attention perhaps because of data limitations or the intimidating appearance of the computations. Nevertheless, we believe that stochastic demography needs to be given more consideration by conservation biologists both because stochastic processes are fundamental to extinction and because population projections from stochastic models may differ substantially from those of deterministic models.

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